Timberframed
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Been reading into nitrous boost for 2 strokers. Like getting through a diamond hard knot. Been milling a 50" White Oak with a 18" round knot and slows me down. Anyone here play with this yet?
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Timberframed,
It could be done, but to just cut through a not, pretty expensive to do. You would need a special intake manifold machined to insert the NOX tube, and for a chainsaw it would need to be pretty small. Then you get to hang a bottle on your saw. It's pretty cool idea, but I'd hate to read where you blew the head off the saw because the head bolts stripped out.
Just my $.10 worth...
jerry-
Do you have a link to where you are doing your reading on this?
I wouldn't mind read it too, just for my own interest, as I won't be trying it.
Years ago, a good friend & I set his VW dune-buggy up with hilborn rotary injectors, turbocharger, alcohol fuel, and eventually nitrous. He ran timed hill-climbs & dirt drags. One weekend, he hit the nitrous button, but the fuel solenoid for the nitrous fuel add-in failed.....nitrous but no add-in fuel..... result: me TIG'ing the torched spots (burn-thru's) on his heads & re-cutting them, the pistons lived.
Bottom line...it ain't just nitrous....it's N2o plus a fuel shot.
I wouldn't mind read it too, just for my own interest, as I won't be trying it.
Years ago, a good friend & I set his VW dune-buggy up with hilborn rotary injectors, turbocharger, alcohol fuel, and eventually nitrous. He ran timed hill-climbs & dirt drags. One weekend, he hit the nitrous button, but the fuel solenoid for the nitrous fuel add-in failed.....nitrous but no add-in fuel..... result: me TIG'ing the torched spots (burn-thru's) on his heads & re-cutting them, the pistons lived.
Bottom line...it ain't just nitrous....it's N2o plus a fuel shot.
Timberframed
ArboristSite Guru
Google nitrous boost for 2 stroke engines. There's a kit for small 2 cycle engines. They explain a lot. I'm probably not going to bother but a 40% increase in horses sound inviting for like getting the wagon over the hill.
Timberframed
ArboristSite Guru
I hear that Jerry. If you toast a 60 cc motor you're out what $15? But a +100cc saw you just threw $1500 into the wind. Guess I'll just push a little harder and get through the cuts.
A 50" white oak with a round knot is only probably has hard as a 3 month old 30" Spotted Gum which is a bread and butter cut in my neck of the woods. My recommendation would be to run a razor sharp well setup chain and if you are using an 8 pin maybe drop it to a 7 pin sprocket
